Did you know . . .

Did you know that the Tree of Life is split into Four Aspects.

1.    Atziluth indicates Kether

2.    Briah includes Chokmah and Binah

3.    Yetzirah includes Chesed, Gerurah, Tipharerth, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod

4.    Assiah indicates Malkuth

Fact came from: pg 129 of Rituals, Spellcastig,&Sorcery Witchcraft Theory and Practice, by Ly De Angeles

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According to my research the Book of Elements will be your primary grimoires. More importantly the Self (The Circle) is divided into four sections. Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. Each of these section have a Manifest Expression. That is what I am going to share with you today. You can find the list on pages 21-22 of the book Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly de Angles.

Fire

·         Flame

·         Electricity

·         Fission

·         Friction

·         Combustion

·         Lights

·         Brilliance

·         Heat

·         Transformation through interaction with other elements.

Water

-          Lakes, rivers, oceans, dew, rain

-          Aqueous bodily secretions

-          Moisture (Condensation, dampness, stream)

-          Wetness

-          Liquid

-          Nonconforming limitlessness

-          Mutability

-          Magnetism

-          Transformation through interaction with other elements.

Earth

-          All things solid

-          That which is tactile

-          Tangible reality

-          Subject to the transformative function or decomposition

-          Ground, both in it electrical sense and in the relativity to that which supports life

-          Structure and form

-          Dimension

-          Time

-          Existence

-          Transformation through interaction with other elements

Air

·         All things atmospheric

·         Gases

·         Space

·         That which is celestial

·         Theory

·         That which is ethereal or etheric

·         Frequencies

·         Noumenon

·         Sound and the medium through which it travels

·         That which is invisible

You an find a list of Personal Expressions related to these four elements on pages 23-25. I would suggest reading them as well.

I will pick back up here next week. Hope you guys are still enjoying these informational facts I am learning as I read through this research material.

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This week I read more about Visualization and the importance of it. Visualization is a major concept of spellcasting. It also leads to dramatic shifts and accomplishes. Basically, it is the imagination and there are different depth at which you can reach.

Visualization uses peacefulness, a relaxed state for creation and altered states, while increasing awareness by controlled and conscious intent, contact, manifestation, and summoning. 

Facts came from Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly de Angles

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In this installment I gained an understanding of why one needed a clear conscious to cast a spell. Spells are not spoke to others, because it can cause a manifestation of thoughts, which is why you need to be clearly grounded when you cast a spell. People avoid speaking spells to avoid it being taken in a different manner than they wished. 

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Meditation is something we’ve all heard about. Many of us use a version each day, or when life becomes too much. But . . .

It is a very old skill that has been practice around the world among magicians, witches, wizards, and monks. The term is a Westernized term for taming the wild beast, or forefront of the mind. This talent allows one to halt and transfer the everyday emotional assaults through a positive will. Result being a tranquil mind.

So, other than having a peaceful mind what does this have to do with Witchcraft. Well, my resource says one must always become centered before a ritual. Best way to do that is become tranquil. Still confused as to this helps, well the book says:

“The process of mediation is like a stimulant that helps your center open and close freely and intentionally and more obviously than before.”

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I’m done with the introduction of Witchcraft Theory and Practice Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly de Angeles. I’m working my way through section one and the first topic is titled “First Stage Technique Requirements”. There was a lot of god information, informative information, making it hard for me to decide what to share with you guys this week. So, I’ve decided to mention the one aspect I liked reading and then explain the main concept of this week’s reading.

Touch On Topic:

Before you begin section one, there is a little tid-bid from another one of Ly de Angele book The Feast of Flesh & Spirit. It is titled “Hallowed Be Thy Name” I read it and wanted to read the rest that went along with it. Might be something you guys like to check out on your own.

Discussion Topic

The Center

The Center has many names. Spirit, essence, soul, consciousness, but it is the deep part of you that seeks understanding of more than who you are, but why you are here. Activating your Center requires becoming a watcher, a purveyor of how you react and respond within a manifestation environment. Use all five sense, taste, touch, hearing, smelling, and seeing to gain your access to how you react to others as well as how they react to you. This must become second nature to you. In her book, Ly de Angeles gives an exercise of sitting aside an hour a day to become attune with your surroundings. Recognize everything that you think, do, say, and hear. Later in the day jot claim some quiet time and reflect on what you saw, heard, smelled, touched, tasted, thought about, and felt. This is called the Nemet a nonjudgmental, external consciousness.

Facts Came from: Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly de Angeles

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At the end of the introduction of Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly de Angles the author states there are two aspects to the work and training.

1.       “the discipline of training the magical will through tried and true methods”.

2.        “the religious training, ritual observances, and spellcrafting techniques”. 

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Today I’m going to share another tid-bit that I learned from Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly de Angles. I’m still in the introduction section, but there was a story in this section that caught my attention. It was about a woman who was transferring her life to following the occult practice. (Occult is not meant to be thought of as evil. It is a simple practice of witchcraft. My opinion. You may have your own.) In this story, the woman’s husband was having a hard time accepting the change his wife was making. It was causing arguments among them. She did not want to leave her husband, but was determined to not let him stop her from practicing her new belief of life. During a meeting with some of the women from her coven the issue came up for discussion. The women came to tell her that “Only through being who she professed to be could she find peace.” This statement is so true, no matter how you live your life. It does not only relate to the practice of the occult/witchcraft, but to every aspect we live.

We have to be who we are to find peace among our self. If we do not, then how can we live a life of any measurable peace.

My question to you, is: Do you have peace in your life? A certain way you live to maintain it?

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Today I’m sharing a bit of the prologue of Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly de Angles.

In the prologue you are taken on a journey of a woman sitting in a dark room. During this journey, we are introduced to some of her tools of trade and her methods of greeting and/or combining with her Goddess. The entire prologue brings you to the brink of a story that leaves you longing for the same connection that this woman finds, but it is the ending of the prologue that catches my attention and I want to share with you today.

“The Way of the Goddess will continue, through to most her name is unknown. As long as even one remembers will the knowledge proceed and the Earth be sustained.

Though the foolish fear what they don’t understand, the magic goes on and the secret survives, for the priestess of the Moon is witch, and what she represents is at one with what’s living and all that she is will continue – for without her the Earth would weep and the nights would never understand and so would cease to be. She is the spiral of life – the oceans the rivers, the falling of the dew, the changing of the seasons. She is the corn at harvest and the birth of birds. She is the wind on the mountain and the spider’s web at dawn.

All things of beauty are the name that she summons, for she is the mirror of the Goddess that is life, and the mother of all living things. If she could not continue, or was the last of all, then all hope would cease to be.”

Witchcraft Monday

Last week I gave you a snippet of my newest resource book that I’m reading. This week I’m going to give you another small taste of it. Last week’s and this week’s post is a start to a series of post. I’m reading this resource book for some research, but am finding the material wonderful and wanted to share some of my findings with you. So, each week, I’ve decided to post another small bit of what I read the previous week.

Hope you find it as interesting as I do.

“. . . and when you know the magic believes in you, how can you not?”

-- Ly de Angeles

RESOURCE: WITCHCRAFT THEORY AND PRACTICE BY Ly de Angeles

The CENTER

First off I want to apologize for no posting last week. It was super busy for me. Thankfully, things are slowing down.

Today I want to describe what the CENTER is regarding Witchcraft. Many call it spirit, essences, soul, consciousness. Whichever you choose it is a deepness that one seeks to know and understand who you are as well as why you are here. (Comes from Rituals, Spellcasting & Sorcery Witchcraft Theory and Practice by Ly De Angeles) The part of you that is the center is your sixth sense. Or . . . Inner sight. To access it you must consider the other five senses as the perimeter of a circle. Thing there flow inward, to the center.

There is way more information listed in this book. I suggest if this interest you that you find you a copy and indulge in reading the material.